University News Last updated 18 September
Jazz graduate and singer Lucy-Anne Daniels triumphed at the 2025 Tina May Young Jazz Musician Awards this year, where she won the main prize and the audience award.
The prizes are awarded by the Musicians’ Company, a charity that aims to nurture and support emerging musicians.
Leeds-based Lucy-Anne was one of five finalists, and impressed the judges with the following repertoire: Nature Boy, You’re Beginning to be a Habit, What’s New and Let’s Face the Music and Dance.
The graduate was described by UK Jazz News as “bringing an astonishing degree of rhythmic freedom and inventiveness to her programme, but perhaps above all a remarkable and irresistible sense of sheer enjoyment”.
Head of Jazz Jeremy Price commented: “The professional scene is quickly finding out what a great jazz singer Lucy-Anne is. We’ve known for a while, and since her graduation in 2024 it’s been a treat to watch her meteoric rise from her BBC Prom appearance that same year with the BBC Concert Orchestra, to her education work with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and various appearances at top venues in the UK and abroad. We wish her well and look forward to more exciting headlines, which are bound to come. Congratulations LA.”
Pictured: Lucy-Anne Daniels, second from left, together with the other finalists.